Folding money holder or envelop.



No. 709,496. Patented Sept. 23', I902.

E. L. MILLER.

FOLDING MONEY HOLDER 0B ENVELOP.

(Application filed June 6, 1902.) (No Model.)

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FOLDING MONEY HOLDER OFl ENVELOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,496, datedSeptember 23, 1902.

Application filed June 6,1902. Serial No. 110,414. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN LUNN MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at \Villiamsport, in the county of Lycoining and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFolding Money Holders or Envelops, of which the following is aspecification.

Myinvention has relation to a money-holder or collection-envelop of thetype illustrated and described in the Letters Patent No. 590,765,granted to me under date of September 28, 1897, and in such connectionit relates more particularly to an improvement upon such a holder orenvelop whereby there are provided two separate pockets or receptaclesin the holder or envelop.

In my formerpatent there is illustrated and described acollection-envelop provided with folding flaps and an intermediatepocket combined with means for maintaining the flaps in closed positionupon the pocket, and the interior of the flaps and the face of thepocket were adapted when the flaps were extended to receive anaccount-record.

In my present invention the principal ob ject is to extend theintermediate pocket over one of the folding flaps and to provide meansfor forming this elongated pocket into two pockets folding down uponeach other upon a common closure for both pockets and the flap anddouble pocket thus formed being arranged to carry out the purposes andfunctions of the old envelop with an added function or purpose-namely,the separation of the amount placed in the envelop into two distinctnon-communicating compartments.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood fromthe following description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan Viewof a blank adapted when folded and fastened to embody the envelop of myinvention. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the holder or envelop foldedtogether and with a flexible securing means surrounding the envelop.Fig. 3 is a top or plan View of the holder or envelop, showing the samein extended position; and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the holder orenvelop with both its pockets distended to receive the money.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the blank from which the envelopis formed, and it consists of. a main rectangular body a, divided bybisecting creases b and a into four rectangular panels. From one of therectangular panels 0. projects a rectangular flap d, coequalin area tosaid panel a of the body a and integral therewith, creased, as at 6,along the junction between it and said panel a. From the side of thebody Ct projects the oblong flap (1.

In assembling the blank A the body a is bent upon its vertical crease bto bring the two panels to the left of said crease down upon the otherpanels of the body. The oblong flap d is bent inward and united to theedge of the bent-down panels of said body by paste or other suitablemeans. There is thus formed a tube open at both ends and extend ed atits upper end into the rectangular flap (1. The tube is now divided intotwo pockets g and h by sewing or stapling along the line of the creasec, as illustrated at min Figs. 3 and 4.. The sewing or stapling m thusforms a common closure for the two pockets g and h. The blank is nowfolded along the crease c and the crease 6, so that the two pockets gand h are inclosed by the flap d. A flexible band at, (see Fig. 2,)passed around the flap d and united, preferably, to the stapling orsewing on, serves to maintain the flap (1 upon the pockets 9 and h andprevents the discharge of the contents of said pockets g and 72. untilthe flap d has been lifted.

On the inner side of the flap d and over the pockets 9 and h ispreferably provided an account-record o, as in my previous envelop, andon the interior of each pocket g or It is adapted to be placed letteringto indicate the use to which the money deposited into said pockets is tobe put.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A money holder or envelop, consisting of a flat sheet of cardboard orpaper, creased and folded to form a flat tube, a strip projecting fromone of the infolded portions of the tube and united to the other portionof said tube to complete said tube, said tube creased transverselyintermediate of its open ends to form two pockets, a closure formed atsaid transverse crease and common to both pockets, and an end flapprojecting from one of the infolded portions of the tube beyond one ofthe pockets and arranged to fold down over both pockets, when saidpockets are folded inward along the common closure.

2. A blank for a money holder or envelopconsisting of a rectangular bodyportion divided by bisecting creases into four rectangular panels, arectangular flap projecting from one of said panels and coequal in areatherewith, and an oblong strip projecting from one side of therectangular body portion and adapted to be fastened to two of therectangular panels when said panels are creased down upon the otherpanels of the body to form a tubular body portion, substantially as andfor the purposes described. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mysignature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN LUNN MILLER. Witnesses: WM. H. KIEss, WM. F. LOSCH.

